The only Saints game with an actually epic ending was the original and I suspect I'm the only one of you awful people to have played it. Though I guess Saints 3 was good depending on what you did.

I think my main issue with the game is that it is literally Saints 3 with shiny stuff added. I get why, it expanded out of DLC, but it just feels like a long DLC. Look at the leap between 2 and 3. Even the leap between 1 and 2 was substantial though they were on the same engine. Don't get me wrong, it was a definite and huge improvement on 3 and I absolutely loved it. I was just a bit "hang on a minute..." when even the menus were the same.

What I did like was how the "Activities as missions" disappointment of 3 was turned into a series of side-quests in 4. Admittedly the side-quests were very shallow with a couple of lines of dialogue and minimal story justification, but it just felt better to have a clear goal and to get some sweet rewards.